I live in Junnanhai, Beihai, and I can't send geese to deliver books.
Peach and plum spring breeze, a glass of wine, ten years of night rain.
Housekeeping, but with four vertical walls, does not cure diseases.
I want to study, my head is white, and apes cry over streams.
This poem was written in the eighth year of Yuanfeng in Song Shenzong (1085), when Huang Tingjian was in charge of Deping Town in Dezhou (now Shandong). Huang Jifu, Zi Jie, was born in Nanchang (now Nanchang, Jiangxi). When he was a teenager, he made friends with Huang Tingjian and had a deep friendship. Huang Tingjian copied many poems for Huang Ji. At this time, Huang Ji knew Sihui County (now Sihui County, Guangdong Province). At that time, the two were far apart, and Huang Tingjian thought of his friend and wrote this poem.